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Grant Henke commented on KAFKA-902: ----------------------------------- A few thoughts on the patch: Should the "jitter" be added to 'reconnect.backoff.ms' too? Would there ever be a good reason to change the jitter value from 10? Should it be added to the CommonClientConfigs? > Randomize backoff on the clients for metadata requests > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-902 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-902 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: clients > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Reporter: Neha Narkhede > Assignee: Geoffrey Anderson > Priority: Critical > Labels: newbie > Attachments: KAFKA-902.patch > > > If a Kafka broker dies and there are a large number of clients talking to the > Kafka cluster, each of the clients can end up shooting metadata requests at > around the same time. It is better to randomize the backoff on the clients so > the metadata requests are more evenly spread out -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)